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gitana @wat @t ASA P. HAWSE AND Gr.4 SHIPPY, OF WOLCOTT. VERMONT.

Leners Patent No. 88,631, dated April 6, 1869.

IMPROVE!) CLOTHES-DRIRE The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all personsto whom these presents mag/come.-

Be it known that we, AsA P. HAwsE and G. R. SHIPPY, of Wolcott, in the county of Lamoille, and State of Vermont, have invented an Improved Clothes- Drier; and do hereby declare the same .to-be fully described in the following specification, and'represented in the accompanying drawings, of which--4 Figure l is a top view;

Figure 2, a front elevation; and

Figure 3, a vertical section of it.

In the said drawings- A denotes a bracket, or strip, of wood 4or metal, grooved lengthwise, the groove a being dovetailed, and provided, on its inner surface, with a rack,` or series of notches b b b.

v Within this groove is a dovetailed slide-bar, B, provided with a spring-catch, G, to enter either of such notches, and thereby hold the barB at any desirable elevation within the bracket A, it being intended for such bracket, when in use, to be applied vertically to a wall or a fence, or other proper object.

There projects from the slider B, a segmental ratchet, D, to whose centre, a clothes-hangingame, E, is pivoted, that is to say, the middlebar d, of such frame is forked, and straddles the ratchet, and has the lower round bar of the series e e e of bars of the frame carried through it and theratchet.

YThe frame E is composed of three parallel bars, f l j, and the series of round bars e, the latter being extended through and fixed to the bars f d f, at right angles to them.

A spring-latch, F, ixed to the middle bar of the frame E, operates against the periphery of the ratchet, and with theV teeth thereof, serves to hold the frame E in either a horizontal, an inclined, or a vertical position,

as circumstances may require.

By means of the devicesy for supporting the clothesframe, it, after having been supplied with one or more wet articles to be dried, by exposure to the atmosphere,

. may be raised to anydesirable elevation, and there Gr. R. SHIPlPY. Witnesses:

J. O. TAYLOR, GEo.`H. WRIGHT. 

